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Zsofia Szendrei Vegetable Entomology Lab

Ecological, behavioral and evolutionary questions related to

arthropod pests of vegetables. Our goal is to provide

vegetable growers with new and improved IPM tools.


Grad student Nicole Quinn and a team of undergrads measure cucumber yield in cover crop intercropping experiment.


Jason Schmidt, Jemma Flood and Jessica Kansman caught in the rain during data collection day.

Jason Schmidt and Ari Grodessorting through suction samples.


Undergrad Gabriel King in the field.

Jeremy Jubenvilleimplementing a mark-capture experiment in a celery field.

Deborah McCullough Forest Entomology Lab

Ecology and management of

native and exotic forest insects


Molly Robinett measures diameter of a tree.

James Wieferich scrubs beech scale off an infested tree to evaluate control methods for beech bark disease.


Kyle Redilla and Molly Robinett set up a trap for woodborers.

Tree planting –Deb McCullough


Sara Tanis evaluates hemlock condition.

The Forest Ent crew looking good -Christmas 2013.

John Wise Trevor Nichols Research Complex

Understanding the unique activity characteristics and performance boundaries of

new insecticide chemistries on Michigan’s fruit insect pests


Linda Raja Jamilusing Potter Spray Tower to conduct predatory mite bioassays at the TNRC.

Tony VanWoerkomconducting trunk

injection research on apples

(Michigan Farmer magazine front

page).


Dan Hulbert conducting research with TNRC’s rainfall simulation chamber.

Abdulwahab Hafez welcomes the Green Shaikh to MSU’s recycling

center.

Rufus IsaacsBerry Crops Entomology Lab

Berry crops entomology: pest phenology, pheromone

mating disruption, pollination, biological control, selective

insecticide evaluations


Bee Patrol picking up bumblebee research colonies for analysis in the lab.


Emily May, Clara Stuligross, Julianna Wilson and Rufus Isaacs evaluate the success of wildflower restorations at fruit farms.


Undergrad Kari Grebe on the hunt for bees in a mature tallgrass prairie.

Kari Grebe and Clara Stuligross setting up emergence traps to collect insects.

Isaacs & Landis Labs

www.nativeplants.msu.edu

Doug LandisInsects & Landscape Ecology Lab

How does landscape structure influence insect ecology and

management?


GLBRC Intensive Plots at Kellogg Biological Station are an excellent way to study multiple bioenergy crops in one place. We are studying how beneficial predator communities respond to winter cover crops preceding corn.

Gathering preliminary data in native prairie sites. Insects collected using pitfall traps, sticky traps and sweep netting. Native prairie is a candidate bioenergy crop.

Post-doc Aaron Fox vacuuming for insects in GLBRC intensive plots at KBS.

Student research assistants collecting data for GLBRC experiments.

Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) at MSU


Technician Julia Perrone and grad student Marissa Schuh trying to see over the tall switchgrass so they can sweep for natural enemies.


Landis lab student research assistants taking measurements in the GLBRC intensive plots

at KBS.

Working the KBS outreach table at the Southwestern Michigan Harvest festival.


Post-doc Aaron Fox and his crew mixing ant baits in the lab.

Grad student Marissa Schuh setting up aphid cages in switchgrass.

Dave Smitley Turf & Landscape Pest Management

Turf, Landscape, Nursery Pest Management


Jen Michalski rating flower damage.

Collecting foliage from ash trees near St. Johns, MI for a laboratory assay.


Dave Smitley teaching lab personnel how to identify a Malpigian tube parasite of Japanese beetles.

Rachel Pierce weighing chemical for an insecticide trial.


Chelsea Rawe watering plants that are in a neonicotinoid insecticide on bees experiment.

Removing foliage from the tops of ash trees by the easiest method.

Washing turf root samples to count white grubs.

Ke Dong Insect Toxicology & Neurobiology Lab

Insect Toxicology and Neurobiology


(Back row, left to right) Peng Xu, Ke Dong, Frank Rikevich, (Front row, left to right) Yuzhe Du, Yoshiko Nomura, Lingxin Wang


Yuzhe (Cathy) Du

Peng Xu

Ke Dong

Frank Rinkevich


Kdr mutations that reduce sodium channel sensitivity to pyrethroids in diverse insects

I II III IV

L→FV→M F→IL→F/H/SM→I

C→RE→K M→T T→I/C/V L→P

I→M

V→G

F→C

H2N COOH

Do kdr mutations define the pyrethroid binding site?


IILS4-S5 ILS4-S5

Dual pyrethroid receptor sites on the sodium channel

Matt GrieshopOrganic Pest Management Lab

Developing economically viable pest management

tactics for organic farming through better understanding of agroecosystem dynamics,

pest natural historyand behavior

Matt Grieshop Organic Pest Management Lab

Krista Buerher working with hogs as a pest management toolin an organic orchard.


Matt Grieshop applying MycotrolO® to combat the apple flea weevil.

Anne Nielsen flaming the orchard floor.


Atheta coriaria, a greenhouse natural enemy.

Emily Pochubay using a mite brush to count beneficial mites.

Larry Gut Tree Fruit Entomology Lab

Tree fruit entomology: Researching novel mating disruption

technologies


The tree fruit entomology program is a team effort and a lot of fun!


Research work in the orchard.


Tree fruit research work in the lab.

Walker-Kaufman-Tsao

Exploring aspects of vector (mosquitoes, ticks)

biology and insect-microbe

interactions

Walker-Kaufman-Tsao

Field trip to the Grand Canyon during the Society for Vector Ecology annual meeting.

Katie Demeuse deploys a CDC trap for mosquito surveillance at an emu farm.

Walker-Kaufman-Tsao Lab

Taking tissue samples from wild rodents to assay for Lyme disease.

Collecting larvae of the invasive mosquito species, Aedes japonicus, from an artificial habitat near MSU’s campus.

Walker-Kaufman-Tsao Lab

Preparing experimental larval habitats for Anopheles gambiae studies (left) and sampling natural larval habitats (right) in Kenya.

Mark WhalonPesticide Alternatives Lab

Researching innovative arthropod pest management

strategies, tactics and tools to help agricultural producers

transition to more economic and environmentally friendly,

reduced-risk and organic pest management


Mark Whalon conducting maximum residue level

research in cherries.


Ph.D. student Duncan Selby in the field conducting a study in pest insect ethology.

Insecticide maximum residue level research in cherries.

Anthony Cognato Holistic Insect Systematics Lab

Our goal is to improve insect systematics, taxonomy

and phylogenetics. We specialize in bark beetle (Scolytinae)

biodiversity and molecular systematics.

Anthony Cognato Holistic Insect Systematics Lab

Students travel the world to study a variety of taxa and produce award-winning monographs.

Albert J. Cook Arthropod Research Collection

The museum houses 2 million world-wide

specimenswith significant holdings of

Lepidoptera and Coleoptera

from the Great Lakes region.

Albert J. Cook Arthropod Research Collection

Current NSF funded activities:• Physical renovation of storage• Specimen level data basing• Imaging of specimens

The research collection was established in 1867.

Search our database at: http://www.arc.ent.msu.edu/holdings.php

Larry OlsenPesticide Safety & Education

Research and extension on impacts of pesticide use,

development of user-friendly training materials on pesticide

safety and regulations, and measuring and reducing worker

exposure to pesticides.


Larry Olsen discussing flea beetle damage on young potato foliage with educators at the Marco Institute in Peru.


Larry Olsen discussing improved potato variety qualities at a farmer field school in Peru.

Del Delfosse Classical Biological Control

Classical Biological Control of the

Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB)

Halyomorpha halys Stål (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)

Ernest S. Delfosse, Gary L. Parsons, Patricia M. Samota, Ryan L. Paul and Heather L. Leach


BMSB wasp emerging from eggs.

Trissolcus emergence.

Lab members of the Classical Biological Control of BMSB.


Lab members in the field at Rose Lake.

Trisha Samota posing with cicadas.


The MSU Classical Biological Control of BMSB team members Gary Parsons, Ryan Paul and Trisha Samota (left to right) prepare native pentatomid eggs for physiological host-specificity testing of the scelionid egg parasitoid, T. halyomorphae.

Eric BenbowAquatic entomology

Studying new frontiers in aquatic ecosystem

entomology and disease ecology


Research associate Dr. Jen Pechalswabbing a dead salmon as part of a

larger study in Alaska and Michigan addressing insect-microbe interactions

with decomposing carrion in stream and riparian habitats.

The Benbow lab sampling invertebrates from vernal pools in Okemos, MI.


Grad students Courtney Larson and Courtney Weatherbee sampling aquatic insects and microbial biofilms from a Michigan stream.


Dr. Jen Pechal and colleague taking a break in Juneau, Alaska.

Decomposing salmon carcasses play an important role in providing nutrients to streams in the Pacific Northwest, such as changing insect communities and the bacteria associated with the insects.

Karim MarediaInternational IPM and training

International training and capacity building related to:

• Integrated Pest Management• Agricultural biotechnology• Food safety• Biosafety• Intellectual property rights• Technology transfer


Participants in recent international IPM shortcourse.


Intellectual Property Rights shortcourse.


Central Asia IPM CRSP field training in Tajikistan.

MSU faculty visit to Nepal.

G.U.E.S.S.Graduate & Undergraduate Entomology Student Society

Graduate and Undergraduate Entomology Student Society


G.U.E.S.S. is a service-oriented, student organization in

Michigan State University’s Department of Entomology,

raising money annually to support a variety of causes.


Entomology student Rebeca Gutierrez during

the annual G.U.E.S.S. camping trip.


Award winners at the 2014 G.U.E.S.S.-hosted spring picnic.


Students at the G.U.E.S.S.-hosted department picnic.

Bug House

Julia Perrone and

Mitch Lettowwith Rosie, the

rose-haired tarantula.

Students and staff volunteer at MSU’s popular Bug House

Bug House

Roughly 7,000 visitors tour the

Department’s Bug House each year.

Bug House

Display drawers, posters and live insects make the experience visual and exciting.

Bug House

Halloween at the Bug House

Visit us at www.ent.msu.edu

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